Festapalooza kicks off in just three days. Here's a breakdown of what time you can expect each band -- American Fangs, Digital Summer, Texas Hippie Coalition, SOiL, Pop Evil, Filter and Sevendust -- to hit the stage at downtown Shreveport's Festival Plaza.

I have a love/hate relationship with Facebook. On one hand, I absolutely loathe seeing people post the most utterly ridiculous, stupid things known to man. But on the other hand, every once and a while, you stumble across something worth while...like the Awkward Band and Musician Page. Like and…

I think it was Shakespeare that said, "What is in a name? A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet." That might work for roses, but I don't think that is true for music groups.I saw on Buzzfeed "40 Names of Bands Before They Were Famous." Some of them I was familiar wit…

After hearing his name for...well, YEARS!...I finally got a chance to get East Texan Wes Jeans on the Homegrown show back in late March. That was just ahead of his show at the Riverside Warehouse with The Kul (Johnny and Dane from that band also made the trip to be on Homegrown that weeke…